HEBETATE

  

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HEBETATE

Definition: HEBETATE

HEBETATE

Adjective

1. Having a dull or blunt and soft point.

2. Obtuse; dull.

Transitive verb

1. To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Synonyms within Context: HEBETATE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Insensibility

Render insensible, render callous; blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy; brutify; brutalize; chloroform, anaesthetize, put under; assify.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: HEBETATE

English words defined with "HEBETATE": Hebetated, Hebetating. (references)

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Modern Translation: HEBETATE

Language Translations for "HEBETATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tompa eszû (logy), elbutít (dull, to dull). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ebetatehay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

tâmpi (addle, besot, blunt, dull, flabbergast, flummox, stupefy), se tâmpi. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

притуплять (abate, blunt, deaden, dull, narcotize, rebate, stupefy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tup (blank, blunt, cloddish, dull, obtuse, stolid), otupeti (deaden, grow numb, pall, pall on). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zekâsını köreltmek, aptallaştırmak (render stupid, stultify, stultify the mind). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: HEBETATE

Derivations

Words beginning with "HEBETATE": hebetated, hebetates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"HEBETATE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chefette, habitate, Hugette. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: HEBETATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-h-t-t"

-2 letters: teethe.

-3 letters: bathe, betta, teeth, thebe, theta.

-4 letters: abet, baht, bate, bath, batt, beat, beet, beta, beth, eath, haet, hate, heat, hebe, tate, teat, teth, thae, that, thee.

-5 letters: ate, att, bah, bat, bee, bet, eat, eta, eth, hae, hat, het, tab, tae, tat, tea, tee, tet, the.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-e-h-t-t"
 

+1 letter: hebetated, hebetates.

 

+2 letters: hartebeest.

 

+3 letters: hartebeests.

 

+4 letters: bachelorette.

 

+5 letters: bachelorettes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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